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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

John Dryden

Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN

Grace Known Order Place
There is a proud modesty in merit.
JOHN DRYDEN

Advantage Modesty Proud
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
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Age Devour Pleasure Taste Youth
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
JOHN DRYDEN

Blind Willing Zeal
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN

Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
JOHN DRYDEN

Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN

Elegant Flower Heaven Western
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
JOHN DRYDEN

Lost Mild Rage Sea Wind
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN

Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dance Foot Poetry
All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDEN

Dangerous Delay War

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